The application for withdrawal is the first step in a process that could ban mining projects in these national forest lands, and potentially wreak destruction on local economies. posted by Marjorie Haun A U.S. Forester and Bureau of Land Management…
The stall tactics and fear-mongering amount to a direct attack on mining in Minnesota and the good people of the Iron Range. The federal government’s proposed withdrawal of leases for mineral exploration and development not only would have a chilling…